The spirit of Colin Chapman died today, as a creepy green dude watched on. Today's E-gasmic…
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Upon seeing the new CEO's mess in Paris we predicted failure.

Thankfully, the failure took down Bahar and his band of mostly B-list celebrities but the company appears spared and will, we hope, skip Paris to continue to regroup and focus on a brighter, lighter future.

It finally happened. Lotus CEO Dany Bahar has reportedly been fired by parent company DRB-HICOM…
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It's odd timing for this story to leak. Fridays are called "take out the trash days" because smart press secretaries use them to bury bad news — the thinking being that less people are around to read the news on Saturday. The 24-hour news cycle disrupts this a bit, but a late Friday night is about the best place to place a negative news story.

Is Car And Driver helping out someone at Lotus by promising to hide the bad news late on a Friday night in exchange for future consideration? Did someone leak, or withhold information, in just the right way? Is it just a coincidence? I don't know, but I'm curious.